Ultra Low Power Integrated Circuits for IoT

Dear Colleagues,

The rapidly widespread use of portable and wearable devices along with emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications imposes a variety of challenges in circuit design, ranging from small area of occupation, low design effort, straightforward design portability, and especially, low power consumption. Powering the exponential growth of interconnected devices is a key challenge which should be approached in a self-sufficient and sustainable fashion. Thus, integrated circuits that implement digital and analog functions in an IoT device must expend minimal energy in order to optimize battery life or enable the adoption of energy-harvesting and battery-less power approaches.

This Special Issue aims to cover emerging trends and techniques to design ultra-low-power integrated circuits and to attract original research outcomes related to ultra-low-power, ultra-low-voltage, digital-based, and fully synthesizable circuits to enable the next generation of IoT devices.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Ultra-low-power signal conditioning circuits for IoT;
• Energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal circuits;
• Power/voltage scalable analog and mixed-signal circuits;
• IC solutions for ultra-low-voltage, energy, and standby power consumption systems;
• Energy harvesting and power management circuits for IoT devices;
• Ultra-low power circuit design techniques for a variety of IC building blocks such as amplifiers, voltage and current references, analog filters, data converters, and voltage regulators;
• Ultra-low-power hardware architectures for energy-constrained devices;
• Ultra-low-power/voltage ICs for instrumentation and communication applications.

Dr. Paulo César C. De Aguirre
Dr. Orazio Aiello
Dr. Elisabetta Moisello
Guest Editors

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